Networking for Policy Change: TB/HIV Participant’s Guide

This document is a participant's guide for training on tuberculosis (TB)/HIV advocacy for policy change and includes background information on TB and HIV and further reading on networking, collaboration, communications, and mobilisation, as well as a detailed policy advocacy process that includes communication strategies. The guide is adapted from Networking for Policy Change: An Advocacy Training Supplement, (POLICY Project, 1999).

The contents include:

 

 

Section I. Background on TB/HIV

1. TB and HIV: two diseases, one patient
   
2. Global TB and HIV/AIDS Epidemics
   
3. TB/HIV or HIV/TB
4. HIV Fuels the Tuberculosis Epidemic
   
5. The Stop TB Strategy and Global Plan to Stop TB
   
6. HIV/AIDS Universal Access Strategy
7. The International Response to HIV related TB: An Evolving Approach
8. Collaborative TB/HIV Activities
9. Recommended Collaborative TB/HIV Activities
10. Definition of Countries for Collaborative TB/HIV Activities
11. Recommendations to Commence Collaborative TB/HIV Activities
12. Collaboration not Integration of TB and HIV Control Programs
13. Barriers and Opportunities for TB and HIV Program Collaboration

Section II. What is Advocacy?

1. Definitions of Advocacy
   
2. Advocacy and Related Concepts
   
3. Mobilizing for Action: Advocacy Networks are Needed
   
4. Examples of Advocacy Networks
   
5. Assessing the Policy Environment is also Essential
   
6. Steps in the Advocacy Process
   
   • Issues, Goals, and Objectives: Building the Foundation
     
   • Target Audiences: Identifying Support and Opposition
   • Messages: Informing, Persuading, and Moving to Action
   • Data Collection: Bridging the Gap between Communities and Policymakers
   • Fundraising: Mobilizing Resources
   • Implementation: Developing and Action Plan
7. Monitoring and Evaluation
8. Annex 1. HIV/TB Internet Resource List and References